The Embassy of the United States in Ankara yesterday denied press reports that U.S. officers met with members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq in a show of support.

Acting on a French warrant, Dutch police arrested a suspected member of a Kurdish terrorist organization who fled custody in Paris, the public prosecutor said Sunday.

A senior Iranian official accused the United States Thursday of supporting Kurdish separatist terrorists operating in western border areas, the official IRNA news agency reported.

US assures Turkey that it does not arm the PKK. As U.S. officials confirmed that some weapons, originally given to Iraqi security forces by the American military, had been seized by Turkish authorities, the Pentagon said it had not armed and does not arm the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Washington emphasizes is a terrorist group.